linux emulation: "/ " resolves to real root dir; why ?

[Chris Howells]

On Friday 22 October 2004 12:18, Konrad Heuer wrote:
> Linux binaries often need to access files outside the emulation directory
> tree, just think of data files in the user's homes when running
> applications like acroread, linux-mozilla, staroffice etc. So you
> absolutely need to break out.

Yes. For example, on amd64, currently the only way to run openoffice is by 
running the linux32 version through the compat layer. And it is nice to open 
and save the documents in my home directory....

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